{"id":116361,"date":"2020-11-26T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/x-ray-scans-of-ancient-egyptian-mummy-reveal-a-surprising-discovery"},"modified":"2020-11-26T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T23:22:40","slug":"x-ray-scans-of-ancient-egyptian-mummy-reveal-a-surprising-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/x-ray-scans-of-ancient-egyptian-mummy-reveal-a-surprising-discovery","title":{"rendered":"X-Ray Scans of Ancient Egyptian Mummy Reveal a Surprising Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/x-ray-scans-of-ancient-egyptian-mummy-reveal-a-surprising-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Egyptian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/mummification.html\">mummy<\/a> that was decorated with a woman\u2019s portrait contained a surprise \u2013 the body of a child who was only 5 years old when she died.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists have learned more about the mysterious girl and her burial, thanks to high-resolution scans and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/32344-what-are-x-rays.html\">X-ray<\/a> \u201cmicrobeams\u201d that targeted very small regions in the intact artifact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64093-ct-scan.html\">Computed X-ray tomography<\/a> (CT) scans of the mummy\u2019s teeth and femur confirmed the girl\u2019s age, though they showed no signs of trauma in her bones that could suggest the cause of her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian mummy that was decorated with a woman\u2019s portrait contained a surprise \u2013 the body of a child who was only 5 years old when she died. Now, scientists have learned more about the mysterious girl and her burial, thanks to high-resolution scans and X-ray \u201cmicrobeams\u201d that targeted very small regions in the intact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}